H A sa H. 13. MASSER, EDITOR AND P110P11IETOR. OFFICE, MARKET STREET, OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE. El iTnmlly ui)si)aim--Drtotrtr to HoUUts, aficrnture, ttoralfti, jrortfrjit onU Domcstfc jUtos, Science mm the arts, glurtculturr, iwattuts, amusements, Set NEW 8E1UE8 VOL. fl, NO. 37. 8UNI1UKY, NUIITI1UMBKRTAND COUNTY, PA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4. I 8.V-2. or,i) series vol,, NO. 11. MERICANi 5 lu n B D 11 I wl - . - TERMS OF THE AMERICAN. 'w.V', AMERICAN I. published every Saturday al ,1 vtu UOl.LAKS per imum to In pntd half yearly in .advntics. No paper discontinued until am. arrtmruiies are pnid . It A" communications or letter! on business relating to '.lie office, to imure attention, inuit bo l'OST PAID, i TO CLUliS. IflM-ce copies to o addreai, 5 00 r'.eu Da Do I" 00 Filleen D D go 00 , Five dollar, in advance will nay for three year', .ub cnptioii to the American. One Smiaie of 16 line., 3 times, , v"" sulisequent insertion, One Square, 3 month., !ix moiitlu, Due year, llnsiiieas Card of Five line., per Annum, (100 23 sot) wo 300 f icn-nauis ana oilier., aavertistna; ly the year, with tho privilege of inserting oifTt-reiit advertisement weekly. 10 00 la Larger Advertisement., a. per agreement. ATTORNEY AT LAW, EUSTBTJRY, PA. II twincss intended to in the Counties of Nor tliumbcrlttnd, Union, Lycoming end Columbia, liefer toi T. A A. Rovoudt, Lower & Hurron, Poiiicrs & Snodjirass, l'ttal. Reynolds, MiTarlund & Co., Spering, Good &, Co., H. J. W0LVEHT0N, ATTOB.1TET AT OFFICE in Market street, Sunbury, adjoining the OlVirc of the "American" and opposite the. Post Office. Business promptly attended to in Northumbcr land and the adjoining Counties. Rkv En to : lion. C. V. llegins and 11. Ban nan, PoUsvillc; lion. A. Jordan and II 13. Mas er, Sunbury. April 10, 1852. ly. HENRY DONNEL, ATTORNEY" AT LAW. Ojjice opposite the Court House, Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa. Prompt attention to business in adjoining Counties. AY OOD'S Cane eat Chair Manufactory, No. 131 North Sixth Street, above Race Street. MANt'FACTURK?, nnd litis constantly on hand an UI.KMANT nnd FASHION AHI.H slock of CANK SCAT, KLSII SKAT, nnd WINDSOR CIlAHtS, AHM CHAIRS, I.-iriro and small ROCKINli CHAINS, SK I' TKHS, CANK LOUNUKS, STOilU STOOLS, SHIP STOOLS, Ac To Housekeepers. Hotel, Hull, nnd Stcnmlrat Proprie tor., and Dealers in Chairs and Furniture, this rslablish tneut oilers the greatest inducements to puiehuse. Ilaviinr axtunsive Incihlies for liiaiuiliicLurine:. we can sell the same ussorlment ten per cent cht-npur limn hereto. tore, and by liuvin- all work made under our own super visi in we etui cnaratitfc a superior nrllele. tJANK SKAT CHAIRS of the best finish nnd inutcriul, from 810) to 810 per dozen. 'Small Profit, and Quick Sales." N. F. WOOD. Chair Factory, No 131 North Otli St.. opposite Franklin Square, Philadelphia. September 11, 15S. Dm. Pamphlet Laws of 1852. "NOTICE is hereby given that Iho Pamphlet ' Laws of 1852 are received, mid ready for distribution to those who are entitled to receive them. JAMES HEARD Proth'y. Sunbury, Sept. 55, 1852.-- 3. H. & W. B. HAR T, WHOLESALE G ROGERS No. 229 North 2d St., above Callou-hill, PHILADELPHIA. A large assortment of Groceries always on hand, which will tic fold at the lowest pi ices for Cash or approved Credit. April 10, 1852. ly. HARRIS3URG STEAM WOOD TURNING AND SCROLL SAWI.Nd SHOP. Wood Turning in nil its bronches, in city style and at city prices. Every variety of Cabinet and Carpenter work cither on hand or turned to order. llcj Posts, Balusters, Rosells, Slot and Quar ter Mouldings, Table Lcrs, Newell Tosts, Put terns, Awning Tosts, Vi?on Hubs, Columns, Ran ml or Octagon Chisel Handles, cVe. II? This shop is in STRAWBERRY AL LEY, near Third Street, and us we intend to yAeasc all our customers who want Rood work done, it is heped that all the trade wil' give us a call. 1" Ten-Pins and Ten-rin Balls made to or der or returned. The attention of Cabinet Makers nnd Cnrpcn trr is called to our new slvle of TWIST MOULDINGS. Trinter'a Rivets at $1 per 100 feot. W. O. HICKOIC. February 7, 1852 ly. BOOKS F. L.LKR, .Market Street, SUNBURY, PA. TUST received and for sale, a fresh supply of WW rvii:rf.lf U. Ml SIC or Singing Schools. He is olso opening at this time, a large assortment of Books, m every Lmnch of Literature, consisting of . Poetry, History, Novels, Romances, Scientific Works, Law, Medicine, School and Children' Books, Bible ; School, Pocket and Family, both with and without Engravings, and every of vari ety of Binding. Prayer Books, of all kinds. Also iust received arfoffor sale, Purdons Di- cest of the laws of Pennsylvania, edition of 1851, price only 6,00. t...i,.a r?..la ,liiton of TtlAcbatnnn Commcn- .uuu ..v.. - ,.. taries, in 3 vols. 8 vo. formerly aold at 10,00, pnd now offered (in fresh binding) at the fow A Treatise on the laws of Pennsylvania re specting the estates of Decedents, by i nomas r Gordon, price only 81,00. Tmvela. Vovaires and Adventures, all of which will be aold low, either for cash, or court' try produce. ' February, 81, 1852. tt. H CORNELIUS. I. F. 1IAKKK. W. C. BAKKR. Cornelius, Uaker 5 Co., MANUFATl'RF.US OF Lamps. Chandeliers, Gas Fixtures, &c. STORE NO. 17G CHESTNUT 8T Manufactory No. 181 Cherry St., PHZX.ATJBZ.rHZA. April 10, 1858 if. Lycoming" Mutual Insurance Company. t K. J. B. MASSER in the local agent for the XJ above Insurance Company, in W orUiumber- land county, and ia at all times ready to effect Insurances against fire on real or personal pro perty, er renewing policies iu,un pamo. 6unbury, April 86, 1851. tf. iVl'vD BILLS neatly printed on new type Hntlv executed at this office. A Uo M.n; rf all kind, on .uperior rper. f..m.uiy,Feb.l4, 1854. SELECT POETllY. From the Ohio CaJtivalor. AUTUMN AND WINTER. , BY FRANCIS OAGK. Tha Autumn ; going with its beauty so plowing, j Ami Winter o'er all things is casting its pall ; The rose tree is fading, no longer 'tis shad ing The arbor of lovo or tho bright water fall. The dahlias are lopping, the ripe fruit is dropping, Tho corn-leaves are withered and dry on the stalk, Tho ring-dove is sighing, the grasshopper dying, Tho fire-fly no longer enlivens '.he walk. The forests ate changing, the wild birds are ranging, To hunt out a hole where the skies are more clear ; " The stream deeply flowing, tho chilly winds plowing, And lulls us that Winter, cold Winter is near. Summer's sweets w hile we're lasting, away all ute hasting The days of the peach and iho melon are o'er ; Then let us be trying while Autumn is dy inr. To lay up for Winter a plentiful store. Work freer and harder, fill the barn and the larder, Then give to old Winter, when'er he shall coma A welcome most willing; we'll heed not his chilling, If there's warmth round the hearth stone and plenty at home. But while we are cheeiful no cause to be Wnrlul. Let us think of the children of Sorrow and Wrong, And give from our treasure, with no sliuteJ mcasuie, Of the good gifts of Heaven to help them along. 3. Skctcl). AN AMUSING SKETCH STORY. A POTATO The following amusing Sketch of some of the jokes that Newspaper reporters play, is taken from the Great Metropolis : "About five and thirty years ago, when only one sentence of a speech was given on an average, every five or six minutes, and when the reporters had to sit for many hours at a time, they were often at a loss to what to do with themselves. On one occasion when laboring under an attack of ennui, and also under the effects, Jack Finnarty, a well known reporter of that period, yawned out, "Mr. Speaker, will you favor us with a song?" A roar of laughter followed from all parts of the house. One of the officers immediately repaired to the gallery, and inquired who the offender was; Jack Finnarty, without opening his mouth, pointed to a Quaker, of very diminutive stature, who was sitting in Ihe front seat. The officers immediately seized the unoffending little man by the breast of his collarless coat without conde scending to give a why and wherefore, dragged him down stairs, and transferred him to the care of the Sergeant-at-arms. The latter, after keeping him in sale cus tody during the night, and compelling him to pay nearly 30 for his lodgings, set him at liberty on the following day. About the same time the debate, which was about English laborers, being one even ing unusually dull, Jack Finnarty, who had but a shoit time before been imported from Tipperary, said to the only other re porter in the ga'lery at the lime, that lie felt very drowsy and (bat he would be af ter taking a little bit of a nap, if he would tell him when he awoke any thing which might take place. The other agreed, and Jack in 9 moment was fast locked in the arms of Morpheus. An hour elapsed, and after half a dozen yawns Jack opened his eyes. "Has any thing happened ?" was the tirst question to his friend. " 1 o be sure there has." said the other, whose name was Morjan O'Siillivan. "Has there, by the powers?" exclaimed -I. . ' I L ,i . .... J"c.:' Peking up his ears in .the plei.titude 1 oi ins anxiety io near What It was, "Yes, Jack, and very important too." "Then, why don't you be after tellinz it me al once 1 what was it about 1" "About the virtue of the Irih nntatn. Jack." Was it the Irish potato you said, Mor- gan 1" "The Irish potato ; and a most eloquent I u 1 eueecii it wus. iThnn,W nr., I r.rrbiotr. t, i t. J K'j. d why "I'll read it from my note book. Jack. and you'll take it down as I go on," said Morgan. "Och, it's myself, sure, that's ready at any time to write what any member says about our praties, are you ready to begin." "Quite ready." answered Morgan. "Now, then," said Jack with energy that strangely contrasted with the previ ous langour of his manner, "Now, Mor gan, affecting to read from his notebook, commenced thus : "The honorable mem ber said that if" "Och, be aisy a little bit," interrupted Jack, "who was the honorable member V Morgan, hesitating for a moment, "Was it bis name you asked 1 sure, it was Mr Wilherforce." Morgan resumed, "Mr. Wilherforce said, that it always appeared to him beyond all question, that the great cause why the Irisu laborers were, as a body, " mucn stronger and capable of enduring so much 6 . ...... Ureat" Phy' t.gue than the English was ins surpassing virtues oi meir potaio, And he" "Morgan, my dear felljw ?" shouted Jack, el the mention of the Irish potato, his countenance lighting up with ectasy as he spoke, ' Morgan, my dear fellow, this is sj important, that he must give it in the first person." "Do you think so?" said Morgan. "Troth and I do," answered Jack. "Very well," said the other. Morgan then resumed "And I have no dou'ot," continued Mr. Wilherforce, that had it been my lot to be born and reared in "DiJ tho member say reared !" inter rupted Jack oxullingly, evidently associa ting the word with the growth of potatoes in his "own blessed country." "lie said reared," observed the other, who then resumed, " had it been my lot to be born and reared in Ireland, where my (ood would have principally consisted of the potato that must nutritious and sa lubrious root instead of being the poor, infirm, shrivelled and stunted creature you, sir, and honorable gentleman, now be hold me, I would have been a tall, stout, athletic man, and able to cany an enor mous wt'ighl," Here Jack Finnatty observed, looking his friend Morgan eagerly in the face "Faith, Morgan, and that's what I call true eloqnence ! Go on." "I hold the root to be invaluable ; and the man who first cultivated it in Ireland, I regard as a benefactor of the first magni tude to his species. And my decided opinion is, that never, until we grow pota toes in England in sufficient quantities to feed all our laborers, will those laborers be as able-bodied a class as the Irish." (Hear! hear .' from both sides of the House.) "Well, by St. Patrick, but that bates every thing," observed Jack, on finishing his notes, "that's rale philosophy ! and the other members cried, "Hear, hear!" did they :" "The members cried, "Hear! hear!" answered Morgan. In a quarter of an hour afterwards, the House arose. Morgan went away direct to the office of the paper for which he was employed; while Jack, in perfect ecsta-j sies al the euiogium which had been pro nounced on the wrlueol the potatoes of "old Ireland, ran in breathless haste to a public house, where the reporters, who should have been on duly for the morning paper-, were assembled, f Re read over his notes to them, wh'uTi Ihey copied ver batim, and not being at the time in best possible condition for judging of the pro bability of Mr. Wilbct lbrce delivering such a speech, they repaired to Iheir respective offices, ami actually gave a copy of it into Ihe hands of the printer. Next morning it appeared in all the papers, except the one wilh which Morgan O'Sullivan was con nected. The sensation of surprise it crea ted in town exceeded everything Had it only appeared in one or two of the papers, persons oi no oruinary intelligence musi at once have concluded that there was some mistake about the mailer ; but its appear ing in all of the journals except one, and that one so very obscure, that scarcely any body knew whether the speech was in it or not, forced, as it were, people to the conclusion that it must have been actually spoken. The inference was plain. Eve rybody, while regretting that the necessity should exist, saw that no other course was left but to put Mr. Wilherforce at once into. a straight-jacket and provide him with a keeper. Jn the evening, the house met Speaker taking Ihe chair, rose, and begged ! Ihe indulgence of the House for one mo- ! as usual and mr. ilueriorce, on tne tii 'i.!, to a mutter which concerned it, as ' well as himself, personally. "Every lion- orable member," he observed "has doubt- less read Ihe speech which 1 am represent- ed as having made on the previous night, Willi the permission of the House I wil! ' l)iey amoi. invariably dia.v the same infer read it. (Here the honorable member read enPB from u,vk.a slli)iniKl.d lo their eonsid- me speet.n, amiust uea.cu.ug ruais oi idugu- ' .Mr F.h.t nn! imfrcnii.'iitU- oivpa sprinllA nf- I can assure the honorable members that no one could read this speech with more surprise than 1 myself did this morning, when I found the paper on mv breakfast table. For myself personally, I care but! little about it though if I were callable of uttering such nonsense as is here put into my mouth, it is high time that, instead or being a member of this House I were an inmate ol some lunatic asylum, it is lor Ihe dignity 01 inis iwiise mat I leei con - t.cnic-u, ,u., .. ..uuu.uw... capable of giving expression to it, it were much more appropriate to call this a thea tre for the performance of farces, than a place for the legislative deliberation of the representatives of the nation." It was proposed by some members to call the printers of the different papers in which the speech appeared to Ihe bar of the House, for a breach of privilege but the matter was eventually allowed to drop. To show the mistakes which such jokes are apt to cause, the Missouri Republican iniriv iiuuiisiieu tins lueiiucttl siiercu us coming from Mr. Wilherforce, upon a bill for the amelioration ol the laboring classes of Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. VVilber- force is made to say : "Physically, he himself presented bul a very unprepossessing specimen of humani ty ; hut, had it not been for the Irish pota to, it would nave been immensely worse '..I. L ..... . . . wun nun. uau u not been lor lhat inval uable esculent, upon which he was mainly ruseo. m ooay ana mind, he never would have been in anything comparable with what he was, inconsiderable as he might be in both ; and, lo the great use of that vegetable he attributed the stiperior bright ness, shrewdness, wit and sagacity of the Irish over the English, who lived mostly on roast beef and pudding." ? r -. "Yi,irfF0"" personal anpeartnc was precUely what it is here deacriljed to havakeen. T At this time it wu no uaooounon thine f ill use re fn, except one, to absent thenualvat fiom tha aallei y lot houn at s timsthat cna cngsginf to tell Ultra .11 that had happened c his return TI1L' SIAMESE TWIN'S. Many persons who, In days gone by, have laken a lively interest in the welfare of Mes srs. Eng and Chang Bunker, Ihe celebrated Siamese Twins, may be glad lo learn thai these gentlemen are well, and live at Mount Airy, in this (Suiry) County, sutrrounded by Iheir wives and children. Mr. Eng has six and Mr. Chang five chil dren, all of whom are apt scholars and re markably well behaved, manifesting lie strongest possible desire to learn their lessons and to secure the good will nf their leacher. They all partake Mronetv of iho most refin ed Siamese cast of countenance, form and ' 1 manner of deporling themselve?. In truth, they ore a credit to their parents and the community in which they live. Messrs. Chang and Eng are alike remark able for Iheir industry and belligeient disposi tions. They are strict and thorough-going business men, and woe to the unfoiluuate whito that dares lo insult litem. Formerly ihey resided in Wilkes County, bul in consequence of 1 he numerous actions for assault ami battery brought against them in the county, they removed into the adjoin ir.g counly, shortly after which they were fined $15 and costs ot Tvockford, Iho county seat, for splitting a board into splinters over the head of a tnun w ho had insulted them As regards iho supposed sympathy exist ing between them, it may be slated thai their most intimate acquaintances deem them en tiiely independent of cvery-thi.ig of the kind, and give us instances to sustain their cpitiiom that not long since Ihey attended an auction sale of hogs, and bid against each other till they ran up ihe prices altogether above the market rates. Also, that on one occasion Mr. Eng or Mr Chang, was laken ill and look to his bed, w here he lav comDlaiiiinc ror some lime, although his brother scolded him severely all Ihe while for detaining him in bed when he onghl lo have been unend ing to the business of iheir plantation. On another occasion, as Ihey were passing "P 'ho road, a gentleman inquired of them where they were going whereupon Mr. Eng replied, ' l om going over the Blue Ridgo in Iho stage ;" tit the same instant Mr. Chang, looking over his shoulder, replied wilh an arch smile, ' I am going back homo to look nfler our wives and children." When questioned nbout their mother some lime since by an acquaintance, they stated that Ihey had formerly received letters fiotn her, but latterly they had heard no tidings of her, and even if they were to receive letters from her written in the Siamese) language, they would not be able lo read them, as ihey had forgotten their mother language. lliey are excellent li.unl.-4 to carry up a corner of a leg house exceeding all their UBii,ilbl)ls j,, t.u,;j., sa,,nt.s am IU)U.IC s in corner logs both nf them wielding the e wi'.h a power and de.xlurily supeiior to ai:y of ihe most export wood cutters in this wood en country. When they chop or fighl, Ihey do so double handed ; and in driving a hoise : or chastising their negroes, both of them use the lash without mercy A gentleman w ho puichased a black man a shoit time ngo from them, informed the writer he was "the worst whipped negro ho ever saw." They are inveterate smokers and chnwers of tobacco each chewing his own quid ond smoking his own pipo; it has bn """uike.1, however, in support of the ympay opposed to prevail tluoughout lllelr ylrms, that as a general rule, when one lakes a fresh quid the other does the ' same. It is olso generally admitted lhat : iheie is a maiked difference in tho systems i and lemperameuls of ihe gentlemen, bul still n,)d Qnive , simiiir co.lclusioll8.. ..... ....0 , j r- - - - fence to Mr. Chang, by jesting wilh him "i'"ut n.s Having one more cnuu man no nas. , When thuoimg, (a spoil they are very fotid of,) one sight or takes aim and the other, (it is said.) pulls ihe trigger; now if this be ; true, it would go far to prove the doctrine of gupposed sympathy existing between the ' brothers, but it is questioned by most of tho pyubori. j Thej. rentiy nJmjl ni,j acknowledge . ,,,,,.. , ,,,,.. a .,rQnf, Chr sl an faith or belief, and ore regular attendants at church and olher religious meetings, where they deport themselves as becomes good cit- izeus of the land of iheir adoption. They are 6trong poliliciaus, and lake a lively inter- est in all elections that occur in iheir disliict. As the writer was informed by a lady of Mount Airy, "ihey are mighty stay at home people" rarely ever going from home un less called away to business. ureensuoro I y C 1 Patriot. Ot Autumn, why si soon ; Depuit thy hue. Hut make thr f Tests gUd Thy gentle wind ami thy fair sonny noon, And leave the ild ana sad Ah 1 'twere a lot too blest, Forever in thy colored .hade, to .tray, Amid the kisses of the soft southwest To love and dream for aye. Bbtakt. A woman residing in Cincinnati, who has been married thirty-four years, and ia now in her sixty-ninth autumn, agreeably aston Uhed her husband by presenting him last week, with a pair of twins, bouncing boys, the first children to which she ever gave birth. Becoming a mother at this period, and for the first lime, is not little singular. . Tub chronicleis of tha 'hen fever in Eng land throw our fanciers into the shade. The following prices are obtained over the waters for psirsof Cocbiu Chinas ;-$l6. S15P For a sincle hen f 80 has paid. From the New Orleans De't 1 LINES . Supposed lo have been composed by tho cel ebrated Feejee Poet tlcukemanivee, upon tho Twenty-first Anniversary of the Biith of King Kankcrnmsquankee. Strike the hewgag! sound the tomjohn! . Let the loud hosanna ling ! Beat the huzyfuzity ! awakelho gonggonng! liunlum, fuzzlebr.m, ilingo, bim J Shout aloud, Rumbuntumfoozle ! Anil let Ihe great humbug-binl sing '. Bow before ihe great bamboozle Hunkum, Bunkun, fumkensling I Wake again tho great Sumpunkins ! A I . I . . . n And in rumsquash, rouse once mote I Hanguiu, bangum, chnnkem qumkins Loudly let Iho wig-wag roar ! Slaughter now the great Krumsquankee, Hang the bull call up to dry ; II uiimskarum, slavnmhaukee Make the great Rumluskns cry ! Note. Tho writing here becomes illegi ble, bul the song is still sung among the Fcc- jees upon each succeeding birth-day of their late sovereign sung, loo, with a guslo that none but i Feejee can realize. The Iransla- lor is at present actively engaged in the col' lection of the principle curiusiiies of the Fee' jee literature, a: d will, in the couise of the present year, publish a volume of some of Iho choicest selections, in prose and verse from tho most popular authors of that remote but intensely interesting region. FRAN CIS FREDERICK EICGIU. Lale Sect clary to his most gracious Ma- NeslJ-. King KaiikeiumsquatiKce. New Orleans, Sept. 19, 1852. A YANKEE ENTERPRISE. We learn from Ihe Boston Transcript that, ' " sctiooonor i.amainue, wmcn cieareu al dial port on Thursday for Lumann, Vene zueln, a parly of adventurers went out, fur nished with a complement of machiuey, for Iho purpose of raising treasure from the wreck of iho Spanish vessel San Dedro, which was lost off Venezuela more lhan a century ago. It is supposed thai the vessel had about $9. 000,000 on board, which was sent by the home government to pay oil troops in her dominions in the new world. Some two years since a portion of the pres ent party discovered the wreck, and wilh the aid of the little aparatus for tho purpose, suc ceeded in raising about 825,000, and cleared the wreck, so that they now anticipate oper ations will be comparatively easy. A steam engine will be carried out, and also a diving machine of ingenious construction, newly in venled by Mr. James A Whipple, together wilh a sub-marine armor, and all other ap' pnratus deemed necessary for the most scl entifiic fathomed of Ihe boundless deep. Should ihis enterprising company secure the whole of iheir supposed vastly rich prize, ihey will not only mddenly become million- aiies in wealth, but inill'onaries literally ' of the first water." Gheat Pipes. After hypocrites, the greatest dupes the devil has are those who exhaust an anxious existence in ihe disap pointments ond vexatious of business, ond live miserably and meanly only to die mag nificently and rich. For, like the hypocrites, ihe only disinterested action these men can htccuso themselves of is, that of serving ihe devil, without receiveing his wages, he that stands every day of his life behind a counter, until he diops from it inlo the grave, may negotiate many very profitable batgains, but ha has made a singlo bad one, so bad, indeed, lhat il counterbalances all the rest : foi iho empty foolery of dying rich, he has paid down his health, his happiness, and his integrity. The Nepfiks Family. Old Mrs. Neppins, of Long Island, bids fair to become famous through Ihe exertions of her chronicler. Hero is his last budget transmitted to the A'ni'cACTuocicr Magazine ; Mis. Neppins went to camp meeliit' here last week, ond on being asked if Bhe loved ihe Lord, replied, "Well, 1 ain't got nothing ain mill. Also tier sou, oi me inuue ui ... ... . , , r . i. r Conk lin Nennins. ale for a waser a w hole roast goose, and iheu drank up the oily gravy ; Un,l !,,;,, asked if t won J not make him sjci r(.pied that ,;lhe goose sot well enough ;lll0 hjs gtummick, and as for ihe gravy, he thought lhat the giease would kind o'work out 0f njs kin! Bul it did make him sick, for w hen our captain met Mrs Neppins, and asked after her eon, she replied : "Well, he enjoys very poor health, bul this morui.i' he complains of being better." Whal is iho mailer with him!" osked our caplaiu. "Wol," replied Mrs. Neppins, "he'ii kind o troubled wilh a dreadful risiti' of his wit ties!" A Culifornian writes that ho is so hard run for victuals and olher edibles, thai nolh ing but a miracle or highway ribbery can save him from starvation For Iwo weeks he says, he lived on a piece of oil cloth boiled with an olJ bool lo give it o meaty Havor. Here's a situation os is a situation Composition or tus Moos. Every ob ject ou its surface of the height of one nun died feel is distinctly seen through Lord Rusae'a telescooe. On lis suiface are craters of extioot volcanoes, rocks and mases of stone almost innumerable. But there aie no aicna of inhabitants such as ours, no vestige of architectural remains, to show lhat the moon is or eves-was inhabiled by a race ol mortals similar to ourselves. No waler is visible, no ses, no liver J ail seem. u I dale. HINDS OF mtlT INHWrsTILLG. The fact cannot bo too strongly impressed nrou the public. It applies lo all fruit with out exception, and includes also the pellicle or skin of kernels and nuts of all kinds. The edible part of the fiuit is particularly deli cate, and liable to rapid decomposition if exposed to the atmosphere j it is, therefore, a provision nf nature to place a strong arid impervious coating over it, as a protection against accident, and lo prevent insect ene mies from destroying the seed within. The skin of all ihe plum tribe is wonderfully strong, compared with ils substance, and re sists the action of water and other solvents in a remarkable manner. If not thoroughly masticated beforo taken into the stomach, the rind of plums is rarely, if ever, dissolved by tho gastric juice. In some cases pieces of it adhere to the coats of the stomach, the same os wet paper clings to the body, causing sickness and olher inconvenience. Dried raisins and currants are particularly included iu these remarks showing the best reasons for placing the fruit upon ihe chopping board with the suet in making a pudding of them ; for if a tliied currant passes in the stomach whole, it is never digested at all. When hor ses cat oats or beans lhat bavo not been through a crushing mill, much of this food is swallowed whole, and, in this state, being perfectly indigestible, the husk or pellicle resisting the solvents of the stomnch, there is so much lost lo nutrition Birds being des titute of Iccth, are provided with the appar- arus for grinding their seed, namely, with the gizzard, through which the seed passes, and is crushed prior to digestion. Tho peels of apples and pears should always be cast away. Oianges we need nut mention, as this is always done. Urlcans, green gages, damsons, and all plumbs, should be carefully skinned, if eaten raw-; and if put into (arts, they should be crushed beforo cooking. Nuts are as indigestible as we could desire, if Ihe brown skin bo not removed or blanch ed, all almonds are generally treated. Peaches should be denuded of their skins before they are eaten, if any persons wishes to know how to eat one, let him watch a monkey at the operation. Piucf.s fobty-two YCAtts Aoo. An Eng lish cottager communicated lo a gentleman recently a list of prices of the necessaries of life in 1810, from which it appears that most articles in cottage use have become much cheaper lhan Ihey were formeily. In 18 10 a cattagers Sunday hat cost twenty shillings, it now costs only seven shillings A shirt then cost ten and six pence, w hich can now be bought for three shillings. Cal ico, which was then Iwo and nine pence a yard, is now ix pence. Brown hollaud has fallen from twenty pence to four pence a yard j a bushel of flour, fiom one shilling to five pence ; bacon, fiom eighteen pence to lit pence a pound ; lea of an inferior quality, from eight shilling to four ; btown sugar, from ten pence to four pence ; butter, fiom one shilling to eight pence ; soap, from two and six pence to six pence; starch from Iwo and six pence to eight pence. On this side of the water most articles of cloth ing have fallen in price during the same period. Descendants of Genius. With the ex ception of the noble Surrey, we cannot point out a repaescntativa in l he male line of any English poet. The blood of beings of that order can be seldom traced far dow n even i11 tho female line. There is no English poet prior lo ihe eighteenth century and we be lieve no great author, except Clarendoin, nnd Shaftesbury of whom wo have any inheri tance among us Chaucer's only son died childless; Shakespeare's line expired in his laguhter's only daughter. None of the olher dramalistsof lhat age left any progeny; nei ther did Raleigh, nor Bacon, nor Bow lep, nor Butler. The grand-daughter of . Milton was Ihe last of his family. Newton, Locke, Pope, Swift, Arbulhnol, Hume, Gibbon, Cow-per, Grey' Walpole, Cavendish, (and we might easily extend Ihe list,) never married. Nei ther Bolingbroke, nor Addison, nor Warbur- Ion, nor Burke, transmitted descendants. North Tribune. litoitMoN Toasts. On the of July, the fifth anniversary of the entrance of the pioneeis in the Greal Salt l.ake Valley, was celebrated throughout the territory wilh pomp and display. Brigham Young deliver ed an address at Salt Luke City. The fol lowing are some of the loasts otfeied at the celebrated dinner : Brigham Young He is all he is, and who says there is a lion in the paih. Politics. Tlio pestilential "iii-lt" of Government, cured only with hot biimalone. Who scratches 1 LAWYERS-Cholera visible, following death on Ihe pale horse, and emptying the pockets of tho miserable. The Rcnaway Ji'Dues. May they go home to their own place, (hell.) .Cheap Fcfl A noted ogriculiuialiBi, Mr. Bergen, sajs thul fuel of an excellent quality can ba grown quicker, easier, and cheaper from peach lone, Iban any olher mode within hi knowledge. From Ihis source, he think the selllers upon the Wes tern prairie might furui.h iheraelve, wiihT in three or four years, with a constant sup riv. .! At "what time do your omnibute atari 1'' asked Londoner, lately, of one of the eon. duotors. "Our buses," replied tbe function. ry, 'ruDS a qaarter arter, arf arter, quarter to, and at !'.' Ia English this rr.esus "eeiy qnsiter of an hour." WEBSTER'S HEAD. He was a great man, a man of Ihe largest moulJ, a great body and a great brain j h he seemed made lo last a hundred year,. Since Socrates, there has seldom been a head so massive, huge. Since ihe stormy features of Michael Angela, "The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groiued tha aisle, of Christian Rome.1' He who sculptured Day and Night into such beautiful forms ho looked them in his face before he chisseled them in stone. Du puytien and Cuvier are said lo be the only men in our day that have had a brain so vast. Since Charlemagne, I think there hat not been such a grand figure in all Christen; dom. A large man, decorous in dress, dig nified in deportment, he walked as if he felt himself a King. Men from the country who knew him not, stared oi him as be pas sed through our streets. The coal-heavers and porters of London looked on him as on a King. In the Senale of the United Slates;', he looked an Emperor in that council. Even ihe majestic Calhoun seemed common com pared wilh him. What a mouth he had. It was a lion's mouth. Yet there was a sweet grandeur in his smile, and a w oman's sweetness when he would. What a brow it was! what eyes, like chaicoal fire in the bottom of a deep, dark well. His face was rugged wilh volcanic fires, greal passion's and great thought. "The front of Jove himself, An eye like Murs, to threaten and command." Theodore Parker. Washing Made, Easy. The "crazy folks" in Ihe asylum at Hartford, Ct., mix a gill of alcohol with a gallon of soft soap, just as ihey are going lo rub it on the clothes, .which' they then soak two or three hours, and then merely rinse out in clear water, and in al) dirt is out as effectually as good sen bo, is out of a fellow after drinking the same quantity of the ' poisonous stufl." Just tell the wo men lhat ihis is the easiest way to make washing easy, and urge them lo Iry it, and you will thereafter have no reason to run away on washing day. In washing stairs and passages, always use a sponge instead of a cloth when washing the space between the carpet and wall, and you will not soil Ihe edges. Sponge is cheap,, and tin inlormalion is cheap, but it ia valuable to all housekeep ers. The Plough. ' - ' e i Immense Iron Structure. The Oswego Starch Factory is now the largest establish ment of ihe kind ju Iho United States. The factory and buildings cover one ond a half acres of ground, nnd ore lighted by between 75 and 100 sky-lights. The buildings con tain 600,000 pounds ol machinery, among which are three cast iron kettles holding 1,000 gallons each ; eight little pumps ca pable of discharging 80,000 gallons of btarcb an hour, five rotary and foice pumps, capa ble of discharging 5,000 gallons of wa'nr a minute ; over one mile in length of water: pipe ; 200 vats, used in the manufacture cf starch, holding 800,000 gallons, and four pair of cast iron rollers, weighing 10,000 pounds each. Thi9 establishment gives em ployment to 100 men, and consumes annu ally from 175,00? lo 200,000 bushels of corn 800 tons anthracite coal, and from 600.000 to 800,000 feet of lumber in the mah'ifRJ: ture of boxes and for other purposes, and makes 10,000 pounds of starch a day. The machinery is propelled by four watei wheels combining 80 horse power. Oswego Timet. Ravid Enovgii for Eves a Yankee. One may now take a railroad car in the Scotch Highlands, and, wilh the singlo in lerr'uptSon of a two hours' water transit from Dover to Calais, ride by rail through London Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, to Trieste on ihe Atlantic ; and, soon, War saw, St. Petorburgh,. Moscow, Prague, Ge neva, Milan, Rome, Turin, Marseilles, juaa rid, Lisbon, etc., al ihe rale of five hundred miles per day. Thr editor of the Wheeling Intelligencer has been shown a brass crucifix, of curious and antique manufacture, which has. been dug tip from an Indian mound in Wetzel counly, Virginia. The mound from which it was taken was covered with a full growth of forest irees ; and the appearance of the cross indicated that it had been butied for many hundred years. receipt ron f IRISO meat. 1 Several correspondents having desired us to republish our receipt for curing beef and l?'k': THE TELEGRAPH RECEIPT! To 1 gallon of watt ', Take 4 lb. salt,., i lb. sugar, I oz. saltpetre, ! i s tn this ratio the pickle la be increased. to; any desirable quantity. Let these be boiled together until ull the dirt fiom the salt ant sugar (which will not bo a liitle arises to Ihe top, and is skimmed, ofl,. Then throw the pickle into a Jarge tub lo copl, and wheii peifacily cool, pour over the beef or pork( to remain the usual lime, say four or five .eeks, according to the size o( Ihe pieces! The meat must be well covered with the pickle, and should not. be put down for af least two days after slaughtering, during which time it should be slightly spiinltlecl with powdered saltpetre, lo free it from the' blood, &o. This pickle has been tiled, without boiling, and proved to be excellest, Germantomri TtUgrafh. At Richmond, Va, bulii sell si tl ti' fer found!
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